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Like the other traditionals among the Cheyennes and Lakotas, he had desired simply to follow the old way of life—hunting buffalo, raiding tribal enemies and camping where he wished.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

In reality, Magnifico grants almost no wishes, instead keeping them for himself while the wishers forget what they had desired.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Raísa’s gift of her kidney failed to generate the sort of reciprocal satisfaction that she had desired, but she might still be the beneficiary of the joy of giving.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2022

Pereira said it was far from the “triumphant start” Bolsonaro had desired.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019

Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez